Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[Redsgirl]

One of the teams at work (not mine, thankfully) has a Dulux colour chart (or similar) where they have each put their names next to the colour that best reflects how they like their tea or coffee to look.





I make my own.

Genius idea!

The men in our family takes its tea making very seriously, with various rules and regulations, and many a helpful visitor who has volunteered to brew up has found themselves reduced to a quivering wreck by the pressure of producing a cuppa that passes muster.

For instance, woe betide anyone who left the tea spoon in the cup while the tea was brewing, as  the metal conducts the heat from the water and reduces the correct brewing temperature.

Let there be no misunderstanding on this. If Tom comes to visit me again, & stays long enough (he stayed exactly 2 minutes last time), & I make him a cup of tea, he'll accept what he is given, & how he is given, whether he likes it or not. Can't be doing with Tea Prima Donnas. English Breakfast Tea, as it comes, spoon in cup, like it or not.

Note that I insist on "milk in first", obviously.

The most likely scenario is, if he did stay long enough for a cup of tea, he'd have coffee.
Much safer bet when dealing with the uninitiated.

[tikay]

Sorry?

"Uninitiated"?

What?

[Karabiner]

"Milk in first" is obviously(I hope)only appropriate if a tea-pot is being used.

I always take my own tea with me if I visit Las Vegas, buy a kettle from a convenience store and use only bottled water in it. On one of my visits I had the pleasure of Tom's company. We got on as we always do, wonderfully well with nary a hint of a cross word between us apart from when I first unpacked my box of 50 tea-bags, Twinings Assam and placed it on the table.

"That's not some poncey perfumed stuff is it?" he barked.

[tikay]

"Milk in first" is obviously(I hope)only appropriate if a tea-pot is being used.

I always take my own tea with me if I visit Las Vegas, buy a kettle from a convenience store and use only bottled water in it. On one of my visits I had the pleasure of Tom's company. We got on as we always do, wonderfully well with nary a hint of a cross word between us apart from when I first unpacked my box of 50 tea-bags, Twinings Assam and placed it on the table.

"That's not some poncey perfumed stuff is it?" he barked.

I cannot imagine any (civilised) person would even consider making tea without a teapot, and, of course, a woollen Tea Caddy.

[Karabiner]

I should have issued a warning that it may come as a bit of a shock to some of your younger readers that they do actually have convenience-stores in Las Vegas.

[redsimon]

I should have issued a warning that it may come as a bit of a shock to some of your younger readers that they do actually have convenience-stores in Las Vegas.

Last two trips stayed in a suite/apartment and could never find an electric kettle in stores. Used the one provided on the hob, was like being back in the 1970s

[Karabiner]

I should have issued a warning that it may come as a bit of a shock to some of your younger readers that they do actually have convenience-stores in Las Vegas.

Last two trips stayed in a suite/apartment and could never find an electric kettle in stores. Used the one provided on the hob, was like being back in the 1970s

That shop on Freemont  a couple of blocks down on the right  from The Nugget sells them for about $10/$12.

[david3103]

"Milk in first" is obviously(I hope)only appropriate if a tea-pot is being used.

I always take my own tea with me if I visit Las Vegas, buy a kettle from a convenience store and use only bottled water in it. On one of my visits I had the pleasure of Tom's company. We got on as we always do, wonderfully well with nary a hint of a cross word between us apart from when I first unpacked my box of 50 tea-bags, Twinings Assam and placed it on the table.

"That's not some poncey perfumed stuff is it?" he barked.

I cannot imagine any (civilised) person would even consider making tea without a teapot, and, of course, a woollen Tea Caddy.

Wouldn't the tea leaves fall out?

[tikay]

I should have issued a warning that it may come as a bit of a shock to some of your younger readers that they do actually have convenience-stores in Las Vegas.

Last two trips stayed in a suite/apartment and could never find an electric kettle in stores. Used the one provided on the hob, was like being back in the 1970s

That shop on Freemont  a couple of blocks down on the right  from The Nugget sells them for about $10/$12.

Walgreens?

[TightEnd]

Train derails in Montana, dumping Boeing fuselages into river.



http://www.king5.com/news/aerospace/Train-derails-with-aircraft-parts-265866171.html

[tikay]

Train derails in Montana, dumping Boeing fuselages into river.



http://www.king5.com/news/aerospace/Train-derails-with-aircraft-parts-265866171.html

Thanks Rich.

Not the sort of photograph we see too often.

There are a few more here.


http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Train-derails-in-western-Montana-3-cars-in-river-265898791.html?tab=gallery&c=y&img=0


And the fascinating PPRuNe thread is here....


http://www.pprune.org/north-america/542973-montana-train-wreck-ditches-new-737-hulls-into-river.html

They are - or were - fuselages for Boeing 737's.

The Railroad company - BNSF - is owned by none other than Berkshire Hathaway, the primary corporate vehicle of Diary fave Warren Buffett.

[tikay]

Well, no-one got rich but we sure had a lot of fun.

Thanks again for treating us to a vicarious Vegas trip.

Your efforts and reports are much appreciated by those of us who didn't make it to Vegas ourselves.

Please donate my returns to the " Tighty Fund"

Thank you.

Thanks very much David.

Tighty, in turn, has requested that the funds be used to defray the montlhy server costs for blonde.

If you have any problem with that, please let me know.

Hope you & the family are well.

Is football something folks in your part of the world follow? If so, hope you enjoyed the World Cup.

[tikay]

Yep please put my returns fwiw to the Blonde account or server costs e.t.c.

thanks

Thanks very much John, much appreciated.

Hope you graduated on Friday evening, & your Mum is a little better these days. *

* For those a tad puzzled, John has been doing on the job training for a new job, & apparently if he is successful, the Company term used is "graduate". Should point out that the Company is USA-owned, & so, I suppose, has USA cultures.

[tikay]

Coming to Ept Barcelona Tikay? 1.1k euro PLO8, FLO8 and NLO8 back to back days. I think there is a 1.5k plo around the same time too. I'm hoping to be left with the problem of still being in the main, providing I get in of course. Should be a great few days.

Don't tempt me......

I need to restore my confidence & self-belief first, Adam. That follows the Sky Poker UKPC (SPAM!) and I'm hoping the Suits let me play the 6-Max Omaha, so maybe I'll see how I perform in that.

It really is quite a powerful force (well with me, anyway), what happens between the ears, this confidence thing.

Most poker players - successful or not - seem to have great self-confidence, "we" are always better than "them". Which, by definition, cannot possibly be true, as 90% of us (or whatever %) lose money.

How many times have you read the comical expression - "it will be a soft field"? Comical not because soft fields do or do not exist, but because it is very often written by players who could not beat an egg. I never comment when I read it, but I do have a little chuckle to myself.

I can see the argument that self-confidence & belief are the ingredients of a winning player, but they exist in losing players, too, & are misplaced.

A subject I am fascinated by.

Look forward to seeing you @ the UKPC. I'm really bullish that the UKPC 6-Max "Live" Omaha Event will be somerthing very special. Can't have been too many of those before in the UK, & very few PLO Events in the UK have carried a £50,000 Guarantee that I can recall.

Your comeback in the February UKPC after that unfortunate (& genuine) "misread" thing in the early Levels was quite remaekable, one of the most amazing things I've seen in such situations. Think it left you with about 2 Bigs, almost the whole damn table (me included) limped in to ensure we busted your arse good & proper, & we all dutifully checked it down every street. Think you seventupled up!

[tikay]

One person out of fifty wearing Beats headphones, a lady complaining that having a freezout with the option to reenter is "false advertising".

Ah, Broadway. It's good to be home.

Beats?

I'm a Dr Dre man myself.